After the death of George Floyd and the upcoming protests, the stream temporarily deleted several screens and films due to racist or debatable content.
Facebook has updated its policies to explicitly ban anti-Semitic and blackface conspiracies.
The world’s largest social media platform has banned black-faced and anti-Semitic conspiracies after an advertising boycott through other people that the company is not doing enough to avoid hate speech.
“We’ve made progress in fighting hate in our apps, but we know we want to do more to make everyone comfortable with our services,” corporate vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, wrote in a blog post.
Facebook said it had updated its policies to “take more account in particular of certain types of implicit hate speech, such as black-faced content or stereotypes about the world’s Jews.”
Facebook’s content policy chief Monika Bickert told the BBC that the ban would probably not apply to critical publications, such as sharing a photo of a black-faced politician.
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Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized social media for old photographs that appeared of him in his youth with a black face.
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Bickert also said Blackface had been “against the spirit of our hate speech policies,” but that cartoons are difficult for its approximately 15,000 human moderators around the world to “identify violations consistently and quite.”
The organizers of the Stop Hate For Profit crusade who staged a boycott of on-site advertising in July through more than 1,000 corporations said Facebook is “not ready” to act on hate speech when they met with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and CEO Sheryl. Sandberg.
Zuckerberg reportedly told workers that boycotting would have no effect on their policies.
Society, however, turns out to have taken a step forward in the fight opposite hate speech (or there are many more).
In the last quarter of 2020, Facebook’s content reviewers got rid of 22.5 million content that violated their hate speech policies, more than double the 9.6 million it removed between early January and March.
All Facebook content reviewers were sent home in March (“a small number” returned to offices), however, the company also uses generation to remove content that violates its policies.
Monika Bickert, Facebook’s global content policy director, said Blackface had been “against the spirit of our hate speech policies.” Picture: James Croucher Source: News Corp Australia
Basically, human critics are asked to act and remove content that illustrates child exploitation, self-harm or suicide on Facebook and the Instagram platform it also owns.
Facebook blamed the pandemic’s obstruction by taking action on less than part of this type of content until the last quarter.
“With fewer content reviews, fewer pieces of content were taken on Facebook and Instagram by suicide and self-harm, and child nudity and sexual exploitation on Instagram.
“Despite these decreases, we have prioritized and taken action on the harmful maximum content of these categories,” Rosen wrote.
Critics have taken action on 479,000 cases of “child nudity and sexual exploitation” on Instagram, up from one million in the last quarter.
Facebook also provided an update on measures taken to combat hate speech in groups.
Since October last year, the corporation has disposed of 23 “banned organizations,” more of which were white supremacist groups.